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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

NEVADA STEEN, or CORPUS onnis'ri, TEXAS.

GAGE FOR BlAS-CUTTERS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,509 dated-May 8, 1894:.

Application filed May 20, 1893- $erial No. 474,962. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEVADA STEEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Corpus Christi, in the county of Nueces and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Bias- Fold Cutter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for cutting materials upon the bias the objects in view being to produce a pair of shears or scissors and provide the same with such additions as will adapt them to accurately cut to a predetermined width bias strips of any fabric.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain features 0f.construction hereinafter specified and particularly pointed out-in the claims.

Referring 'to the draWingsz-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bias-fold cutter constructed in accordance with my invention, the same being shown in the act of cutting. Fig. 2 is a reverse perspective view. I

Like numeralsof reference indicate like parts in both the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I employ a pair of shears 1, of any suitable size, and secure to one of the members, in rear of the point of pivot, a flanged plate 2. The flanges of the plate form ways, and receive a scale-bar or strip 3 formed of metal, divided oifinto inches, and provided-with a longitudinal slot 4. from near one. end'to the other. A threaded stud 5 passes up from the center of the plate through the slot, and a milled nut 6 is mounted on the stud and binds upon the said strip, thus retaining it at any point, upon the way. An L-shaped sheet-metal gage 7 has its under side near one end provided with an oppositely flanged guide-plate-S,

which receives one end of the scale-bar 3, and

from the plate depends a threaded stud 9,

upon which is mounted a milled nut 10, de-

signed to bind against the under side of said gage-bar, the said stud depending through the slot 4 of the bar. The advance end of the gageplate has its vertical portion progscrew carried vided with a lateral way or extension 11, and the same is embraced by a' U-shaped' horizontally disposed clip 12, which extends over the horizontal portion of the gage plateand gage-screw 13.

This completes the construction of the device, whose operation is as follows: Through the medium of the thumb-nuts 6 and 10 the scale-bar'is set to the desired width of the bias strip to be cut and the thickness gage screw is also adjusted to the approximate width of the material. T e thickness gagescrew may be adjusted toward or-away from the base of the gage and thus produce a guide-throat through which the cut edge of the material may pass. It will be understood that the aforesaid screw will be regulated so as to reduce or enlarge the width of the throat in accordance with the thickness ,of the material. YVith the edge of the material resting in the gage-plate, the shears are now operated to cut the material, the said strip as fast as cut sliding over the gage-plate. In this man ner bias strips of a uniform width may be produced with accuracy and facility.

If desired, I may provide the front end of l I cutting.

Having'described my invention, what I claim isis 1. The combination with a pair of shears, of a scale-bar mounted adj ustably upon and extending atright angles to the shears, and

a gage-strip parallel to the shears L-shaped in cross-section located at one end of said scale-bar, substantially as specified.

2. Thecombination with aipair of shears, of a scale-bar mounted adj ustably upon and extending at right angles to the shears, and a gage-strip L-shaped in'cross-section removably andv adjustably located at one end of said scalebar and disposed parallel to the shears, substantially as specified.

3. The-combination with a pair of shears,

of a scale-bar adjustably mounted upon and extending at right angles from the same, an L-shaped gage-strip, and a thickness gagethereby,substantially as specitied. i.

4. The combination with a pairof shears having atransverse flanged guide-plate, a central stud, and a thumb-nut, of a scale-bar gagescrew arrangedin said perforation,sublongitudinally slotted to receive the stud and stantially as specified. mounted for sliding in the plate, an L-shaped In testimony that I claim the foregoing as gage-plate arranged at one end of the bar, a my own I have hereto affixed my signature 1n. 5 flfmged guide-plate upon the underside therethe presence of two witnesses.

0 receiving said bar, a stud depending from T the plate, a milled nut for the stud, a clip NEVADA SHEEN embracing the advance end of the gage-plate \Vitnesses: and provided with a perforation in its upper STANLEY WELCH,

IO terminal above the plate, and a thickness CARRIE CAIN. 

